RTE perde 58 milioni di euro in tasse di licenza dopo lo scandalo Ryan Tubridy
https://www.thetimes.com/world/ireland-world/article/rte-tv-licence-loss-tubridy-scandal-hrkdk8jdc?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=ireland&utm_medium=story&utm_content=branded
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RTE has lost more than €58 million in TV licence revenue since the fallout from the Ryan Tubridy payments scandal, according to new figures from the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport.
Government sources have described the decline as “the real cost of the collapse in public trust” in the national broadcaster with the scale of the loss dwarfing the RTE controversies, including the €2.2 million lost on *Toy Show the Musical*, the €3.3 million in executive exit packages and the €345,000 in undisclosed payments made to Tubridy.
The department’s figures compare first-time sales and renewals of TV licenses, which cost €160 a year, from July 2021 to June 2023 with those from July 2023 to June 2025, after the emergence of the Tubridy controversy in mid-2023. Between July 2021 and June 2023, RTE collected €306 million in licence revenue. Over the following two-year period that figure dropped by €58.4 million to €247.6 million. In that time, licence transactions fell by more than 365,000, from 1,912,500 to 1,547,357.
An Post, which is responsible for collecting the annual fee, said the revenue fall stemmed from a range of factors but acknowledged: “The RTE payments issue has also had an impact on TV licence sales and renewals.”
A shrinking pool of potential licence holders is contributing to the loss, due to both changing media consumption and rising eligibility for free licences under the Department of Social Protection (DSP). “An ever-increasing number of people are entitled to a DSP free licence,” An Post said. “Just under half of the database is now made up of addresses either entitled to free licences or listed as having ‘no TV’.”
Good I hope it crumbles. 1 sided reporting and real entitlement to do whatever with are money. Scum scum scum
Delighted
The tv license fee is an archaic non-progressive tax from a bygone era when TVs were a luxury and absolutely needs to go
Hopefully this will lead to a change in how RTE is funded because RTE does need to be funded despite edgy takes to the contrary
I’d like to see it come from general taxation which would reduce the burden from the people that do actually pay hugely and only effect the ones that don’t to a neglible amount
The license fee doesn’t pay for Fair City or the Late show, most shows that people complain about wash their own faces through advertising
It pays for actual public service broadcasting that stations like Virgin will not provide in a fit.
That shortfall is 100% their own doing.
The thing that always depresses me when I hear this shit is always the missed opportunity. I don’t think anyone would mind paying the license of they felt it was being used correctly, but it never feels like it is. We have so much talent in this country, but rte only ever seems to cater towards the elderly with home improvement and cooking shows.
Look at Channel 4 and what they do with comedy shorts, documentaries on current events, Human interest pieces that genuinely matter. If I scroll through rte player, I don’t see anything even close.
Even virgin media player has better selection, though that isn’t much tbh, but at least they’re trying with some of the comedy shows they’ve put out.
I’m tired of seeing great writers, actors, directors and documentarians go over to England for a chance at a job.
Good, restructure and stop wasting the license fee on overpaid “talent”.
They are still quids in with the government bail out. The content is still shocking bad